Corset



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L. S. PURI'NTON.

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Patented-June 30, 1,885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT 0 mm.

LYDIA SMITH PURINTON, OF \VESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 320,964, dated June 30,1885.

Application filed May 13, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYDIA SMITH PURIN- TON, of Westboroughfln the countyof Worcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the same tobe described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of acorset provided with my invention, it being shown with its fastenings asdisengaged. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of one of the bone or ribpockets. Fig. 3 is a transverse section, on an enlarged scale, of itstwo fasteningsteels and their pockets in a folded state and containingthe fastening-steels and the auxiliary steels. Fig. 4 is a similarsection showing each of the pockets in an unfolded state and the steelswithin it. Fig. 5 is a front view, and Fig. 6 a vertical section on anenlarged scale, of the upper portion of one of the stiffening bone orrib pockets.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claimshereinaftcrpresented, it being to enable each of the ribs, as well as each of thefastening-steels and also each auxiliary steel, hereinafter described,to be readily removed flOlll its pocket to admit of the body of thecorset being washed without the steels or ribs being within it.

In Fig. 1 the fastenings of the two fastening-steels A and B of the openfront of the corset are shown at a a a, 820., and b b b, 850., each ofthose marked a being an eye or thin slotted projection, and each ofthose marked 1) being a button, such steels being common to corsets.Each pocket for reception of one of the stiifening ribs orstee1s,extending from the waist nearly to the lower edge of the corset,is usually formed by a strip of tape or material, 0, of suitable widthlaid upon the corset-body and stitched thereto, the lines (I of stitchesbeing close to the longitudinal and lower edges of the strip, as shownin Fig. 1. In so making the pocket I also fold down upon itself thestrip for about three-quarters of an inch from its upper end, in orderto make Within the pocket a short auxiliary pocket, closed at top andopen at bottom when the strip is sewed to the'body, the stitches goingthrough the part so folded down.

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In Fig. 5 the line of stitching of the strip 0 to the body 6 is shown atd d, and the folded portion of the strip at c in Fig. 6. After thestiffening steel or rib may have been placed within its pocket, such ribof steel is to be bent or sprung at its upper end into the auxiliarypocket, which will serve to keep the steel in place in the main pocketand admit of its removal therefrom at any time for any purpose. Toeffect such removal it will be necessary to bow or slide down the steeland spring it out of the auxiliary pocket, and next to extract itthrough the mouth or open upper end of the main pocket. Each of thepockets 9 or h, as shown, for holding the steels A B,has a width threetimes that of the fastening-steel to be ipserted in it, and, besides, ithas eyes or openings i made in it for the extension of the fastenings ofthe steel through them. Furthermore, there is placed within each of thesaid pockets an auxiliary steel, 0, having a width corresponding to thatof the fastening-steel. WVhen the pocket is not folded, thefasteningsteel and the auxiliary steel are apart from each other adistance equal or about equal to the width of either.

With the pocket so made either steel can be readily inserted in orwithdrawn from it in case such pocket at the time is in an unfoldedstate. The fastenings of the fastening-steel can also at the time beinserted in or withdrawn from the lateral openings for their reception.

By having the pocket wider, as described,than the fastening-steel, thelatter can be moved laterally in the pocket for the purpose ofextracting the fastenings from the lateral openings of such pocket, orfor introducing such fastenings into such openings. After both steelsmay have been placed within their pocket the auxiliary steel,with thepart of the pocket extending around it, is to be folded laterally twice,so as to cause it to lap on the part of the pocket that may be coveringthe fasteningsteel, all being as shown in Fig. 3. The saidfastening-steel will then be securely held in its pocket by theauxiliary steel.

I claim- 1. The fasteningsteel pocket having a width three times that ofits fastening-steel, and also having eyes or lateral openings for thefasten ing devices of such steel to extend through,in combination withsuch fastening-steel, and also Ioo with an auxiliary steel of like Widtharranged such month, and extending and opening Within Within it, (thesaid pocket,) and to fold with the main pocket, substantially as setforth. the pocket against and in rear of the part thereof covering thefastening-steel, all being LYDIA SMITH PURINTON' 5 substantially as setforth. WVitnesses:

2. The steel 01' rib pocket provided at its R. H. EDDY, mouth with ashort auxiliary pocket closed at ERNEST B. PRATT.

